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Moral and Ethical Problems that Result from Slavery
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Introduction
Slavery was widespread in the 18th century. While many African Americans were slaves,
many Europeans were slave masters and subjected African Americans to hard labor. Although
slavery is a social wrong, it was considered prestigious to own slaves and people were ranked
according to the number of slaves they owned. This was however short-lived with the rise of
many anti-slavery activists and movements that sought to bring about social reforms and to bring
about sanity in the society.1 There was a lot of resistance as well as the rise of a civil war that
ultimately saw the abolition of slavery.
Fredrick Douglass View on Slavery
Having been born into slavery in 1818, the orator and social reformer was in a better
position to explain what it was like to be a slave, the struggles and challenges of slavery as well
as the struggle to ensure that slavery was abolished. Fredric Douglass is considered a scholar in
history and particularly in slavery for several reasons including his involvement in the slavery as
well as the role he played in wiping out slavery from the face of the earth.2 The writer is best
known for his informative books like ‘My Bondage My Freedom’ where he vividly describes
slavery and the social problems associated with slavery. He is also remembered for his famous
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Oshatz, Molly. "The problem of moral progress: the slavery debates and the
development of liberal protestantism in the united states." Modern Intellectual History 5, no. 02
(2008): 225-250.
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Douglass, Frederick. The Anti-slavery Movement: A Lecture Before the Rochester
Ladies' Anti-slavery Society. Vol. 5. Press of Lee, Mann, 1835.
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quotes that seek to explain the struggle during the slave period where he states that ‘where there
is no struggle there is no progress’.
While some individuals saw slavery as a physical and social condition, Fredrick Douglass...